Quotes About Calling

The Fates teleported me to the ascended angels staff lounge. It wasn't called that, naturally. We weren't staff. This wasn't a job. It was a calling. An honor. A noble mission. Bullshit.

When we were finally in position, the others pulling away, I whispered, "Poseur." Rafe glanced over, brows arching. "Keep calling me that and I might get insulted. "Stop earning it and I'll stop saying it.

There was also something false about the atmosphere here. It was solemn and dignified like a church or the court of a president or a museum. They were moneylenders, but they acted as if charging interest were a noble calling, like the priesthood.

Until our bodies are made new, like the body Jesus now enjoys, our calling is not to escape fleshly existence, nor to sanctify culture (since it is common, shared by believer and unbeliever, and cannot be made holy), but to so influence our culture as to make it more consistent with the created nature of man, and to sanctify our own lives, because we are also living in the Spirit , with our minds set on things that are above.

Don't let anyone or anything drown out that still small voice that says, "You were made for more.

If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don't suffocate your heart.

This is the kingdom of God on the earth. Because of that, it has a power beyond any other endeavor in which humans can engage. That power depends on the faith of those called to serve in it.

When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone.

As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!

In contemplative prayer we seek to become the person we are called to be, not by thinking of God, but by being with God. Simply to be with God is to be drawn into being the person God calls us to be

To stand before men on behalf of God is one thing. To stand before God on behalf of men is something entirely different.

I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.

Being a person of prayer is the most important calling in one's life.

Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees.

You have to listen to the one who calls you beloved. That has to be affirmed over and over again. That is prayer - listening to the voice of the one who calls you "the beloved."

Give yourselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word. If you do not pray, God will probably lay you aside from your ministry, as He did me, to teach you to pray.

Leaders must be released from the idea that they must be great prayer warriors before they can begin to call others to prayer.

I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what talents I possessed for my fellow workers, for the poor.

Vocations are born in prayer and from prayer; and only in prayer can they persevere and bear fruit.

God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'

Keep us Lord so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.

God give me work till my life shall end And life till my work is done.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.

Purpose is when you know and understand what you were born to accomplish. Vision is when you see it in your mind and begin to imagine it